"incredubility" -- an aggcorn, or a blend, or a mistyping?

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:20 PM -0400 10/17/09, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>I just realized -- Perhaps more simply a mistyping of "incredibility"
>-- although strictly speaking that word doesn't seem to convey quite
>the desired sense.
>
>Joel

I'm especially dubious about "dubiety" being involved here at all,
but while "incredibility" may be, it's not necessarily a simple
mistyping.  Alternatively, it may be "incredulous" + -(a/i)bility, an
all-purpose default nominalizer for forming abstract nominals.

LH

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>At 10/17/2009 05:14 PM, you wrote:
>>On an email list, a book indexer and I think former copy editor has written:
>>
>>As disarming as the host's incredubility about indexers being
>>"separate people," it sure set up Tina Brown's response.  [For the
>>wondering, a reference to a recent NPR program about ebooks.]
>>
>>I suppose "incredulity" mixed up with "dubiety".
>>
>>Joel
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